ES: Public Company Edition: Fifty biopharma companies launched initial public offerings in the US last year and there have been 52 so far in 2020, including Metacrine, Dyne, Athira and COMPASS.

Unity is set to drop its lead product based on its senescent cell science as it fails in a Phase II study in osteoarthritis of the knee. Focus switches to ophthalmic product.

Private Company Edition: In addition to Erasca’s big series B round, Mabwell reportedly brought in $278m. Also, Kurma, Venrock and Section bring the number of new VC funds in April to eight, raising $5.89bn, and former AveXis execs launched the new gene therapy venture Taysha.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took center stage at this year’s Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago, and the pervasiveness of AI tech in new product launches was further emphasized at the RSNA’s expanded AI Showcase exhibit.